When the developer received approval for height etc. several objections were raised by owners on each side and the councillor requested that a meeting be held with the neighbours, and the architects / developer.
During that meeting, it turned out that plans as submitted had a number of issues with them including the design of the loading dock / trash storage and pickup. (I don’t see any changes to the submission to deal with that, nor reference to it in the response to planners.) The architects tried to paper over the problems, the councillor put down her phone and got involved, and then a junior mis-spoke and it went downhill from there. The planner didn’t easily find satisfying answers to the councillor's questions.
When the councillor left the architects office, she walked directly to the site to take a look for herself. It resulted in a long discussIon with her and the neighbours on the street. I suspect the councillor wasn’t thrilled with the planner, and perhaps her office is watching the project pretty closely… Knocking down trees without a permit isn’t a great start though.
It is also interesting that the GC hasn’t immediately put their banner up on the site as they did last time there was construction activity.
